Electrode for purifying liquids by electrolysis.



UNITED STATES WILLIAM Rosin-MAN, on NEW YORK, N. ASSIGNOR onions-HALF TO P TENT 'FFIG MAXtBLUMENTHAL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., AND FREDERICKG. KUNE,

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SPEGlFICATIGN forming part of Letters Patent No. 694,933, datedMarch 4, 1902. Application filed April 29, 190i;- Serial No. 58,052. (No model.) I '7 To all whom it may concern: Be it known that ,1, WILLIAM R. CHIPMAN, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of New York city, injth e county of New York This invention relates to an improvement in means for purifyingliquidsby the electrolytic process, and has for its specific object the formation of an electrode by; which a thorough and complete purification ofliquids may be efiected. This electrode consists of a com position of certain meta-ls which when the electrode is in use develop oxyhydrates, certain other metals for binding the composition together, and certain metals for making the composition sufficiently hard to be durable,

The invention therefore consists of an electrode for the purpose specified compounded and constructed substantially as hereinafter specified and claimed.

I have found by experiment that the fol- 2 5 lowing metals-namely, metallic magnesium,

lithium, barium, strontium, and aluminiumserve well the purpose. of developing oxyhydrates, that cadmium, straits tin, bismuth, and cobalt serve well for binding metals, and

that nickel, ferrosilicomchromium, ferromanganese, and platinum serve well in the compo sition for hardening metals.

Asatisfactory electrode for my purpose may be made by combining any two or more of the 3 5 first group with any one or more of the second group and with the above any one or more of the third group, a suitable flux being used in efiecting the combination. From the compound the electrode may be cast or rolled, as

desired, and made into any desired form or shape.

Different liquids can best be purified by means of electrodes composed of specifically difierent compounds of the above ingredients;

but I have determined upon a compound thereof that Works admirably with all liquids on which it has yet been tried, and particularly in the purification of Water, toward which this invention is chiefly directed. The

compound is as follows, namely: magnesium,

twenty parts; aluminium,fortyparts; straits,

tin, fifteen parts cadmium, ten parts 3 nickel, five parts,an'd ferrosilicoin'ten parts, together with any suitable flux, as resin or .bor'am... I." 7

do not, however, li'mitmyself to the exacttprioiportionswnamed nor to. allottheingred-ients; i

I effect the compounding of .the aboveinv gredients best by first'reduc ing thealumini;

um by'heat to a molten condition, then addin g y the magnesiumin small portions, the flux beingladded meanwhile tolkeep the mass fluid,

then adding the more refractory metals-the nickel and ferrosilic'on-and. when ready to .7

be developed by electrolysis, one or more metals serving as a binder and one or more metals serving for hardening the compound, together with a suitable flux.

2. An electrode for use in the purification of liquids by the electrolytic process consisting of a compound of metallic magnesium, aluminium, straits tin, cadmium, nickel, fer rosilicon and a suitable flux.

3. An electrode for use in the purification of liquids by the electrolytic process consisting of a compound of metallic magnesium twenty parts, aluminium forty parts, straits tin fifteen parts, cadmium ten parts, nickel five parts, ferrosilicon ten parts and a suitable flux.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 27th day of April, A. D. 1901.

WILLIAM R. CHIPMAN.

Witnesses DELBERT H. DECKER, E. L. LAWLER. 

